Newzoo’s Fourth Quarter in 2018 at a Glance

8 Jan 2019

What a quarter! What a year!

First and foremost, we’re incredibly excited to have Advance on board as a majority stakeholder. Announced in early October, this new major investment is helping accelerate our growth in every aspect: data processing, machine learning, recruitment, and everything in between! You can find out more details in the full announcement here.

New Offices, Colleagues, and Partners

With this new momentum and plans to expand our U.S. team, we moved into a bigger space in San Francisco. But this wasn’t our only new office last quarter, we also just established our presence in Shanghai! To populate this brand-new workplace, we hired two new colleagues: Marshall Chen to handle Client Development in the region, and Jinjin Huang as our China Market Analyst locally based in the world’s largest market. We look forward to having them over at the Amsterdam headquarters for a couple of weeks later this month!

Jinjin and Marshall weren’t the only new team members. A total of 10 brilliant individuals started their Newzoo careers between October and December 2018, and more were hired for 2019! Much to our excitement, we reached a total of 20 nationalities by the end of the year.

Our achievements in China did not end with a new office and new colleagues. In November, we entered a strategic partnership with Gamma Data (CNG), who specializes in research in the Chinese games industry to further bridge insights into and between East and West. More details about the partnership are laid out in this news post.

New Experiences

The end of the year was quiet on the event front, with Slush in Helsinki and China International Digital Entertainment Industry Forum in Chengdu being the only two we were present at. However, no event could have topped our end-of-year Christmas party of epic proportions. We had a day full of fun activities, including quads and a helicopter ride (yes, A HELICOPTER!), followed by a great dinner and celebratory drinks. The proof is on Instagram.

Overall, 2018 was an amazing year for us. We can’t close this Q4 update off without mentioning a couple of highlights from all of 2018. We’re so thrilled to have gained the trust of 95 new clients last year and cannot wait to keep working together in 2019. Lastly, we reached a total of 54 colleagues, all with their own unique strengths, personalities, quirks, which all fit together so seamlessly and make up a team to be proud of.

Motto of the quarter:

Our Most Read Q4 Article:

Our Most Liked Q4 Instagram Photo:

Ah, the day we decided to come in in onesies. It was early November, it was getting colder and darker outside. Since we couldn’t stay at home in our onesies, we came to work in our onesies. Seems fair, right?

You can find more pictures of our onesie day and other things we did last quarter on our Instagram!

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